Daniel Adams
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“Everyone has a little NIMBY in them. It doesn’t have to be the part that wins.” Views expressed are my own.
Perhaps you haven’t read LGC’s crack legal team’s response to the allegations, which rebuts the charge by relying on the well-known common-law doctrine of “‘slander’ territory.” Nah nah nah na boo boo, stick your head in doo doo. Res ipsa loquitor. They rest their case.
August 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Perhaps you haven’t read LGC’s crack legal team’s response to the allegations, which rebuts the charge by relying on the well-known common-law doctrine of “‘slander’ territory.” Nah nah nah na boo boo, stick your head in doo doo. Res ipsa loquitor. They rest their case.
Today's reminder that Library Green is an unserious organization run by unserious people. Prop A/B stand on their own merits, but anyone on the fence ought to shudder at the thought of giving LG another 5-10 years to cosplay fundraising and park planning. #a2council
July 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today's reminder that Library Green is an unserious organization run by unserious people. Prop A/B stand on their own merits, but anyone on the fence ought to shudder at the thought of giving LG another 5-10 years to cosplay fundraising and park planning. #a2council
The lawyer for Save Our Heritage Parking Lot has his conspiracy theory to respond to this piece already in the can: Anyone claiming to have soured on parking-lot preservation is a fake or a plant, unless parking-lot preservation bonafides are authenticated with contemporaneous evidence. #a2council
July 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The lawyer for Save Our Heritage Parking Lot has his conspiracy theory to respond to this piece already in the can: Anyone claiming to have soured on parking-lot preservation is a fake or a plant, unless parking-lot preservation bonafides are authenticated with contemporaneous evidence. #a2council
Alan Haber, in 2018, was a named LGC board member.
Here’s Al boasting about the groups he had lined up to contribute to the project if the DDA balked.
Here’s Al boasting about the groups he had lined up to contribute to the project if the DDA balked.
July 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Alan Haber, in 2018, was a named LGC board member.
Here’s Al boasting about the groups he had lined up to contribute to the project if the DDA balked.
Here’s Al boasting about the groups he had lined up to contribute to the project if the DDA balked.
This is how Will Hathaway explained the slide, in his capacity as an officer of Library Green Conservancy.
“We” expect to “raise funds” are reasonably specific words with reasonably precise meanings.
“We” expect to “raise funds” are reasonably specific words with reasonably precise meanings.
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is how Will Hathaway explained the slide, in his capacity as an officer of Library Green Conservancy.
“We” expect to “raise funds” are reasonably specific words with reasonably precise meanings.
“We” expect to “raise funds” are reasonably specific words with reasonably precise meanings.
“No one with any authority to speak for the Library Green Conservancy or the Ballot Committee ever made such a promise.”
Will Hathaway was LGC’s secretary, treasurer, and public spokesperson in 2018. This is the slide he presented to the public on who would pay for the park. #a2council
Will Hathaway was LGC’s secretary, treasurer, and public spokesperson in 2018. This is the slide he presented to the public on who would pay for the park. #a2council
July 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“No one with any authority to speak for the Library Green Conservancy or the Ballot Committee ever made such a promise.”
Will Hathaway was LGC’s secretary, treasurer, and public spokesperson in 2018. This is the slide he presented to the public on who would pay for the park. #a2council
Will Hathaway was LGC’s secretary, treasurer, and public spokesperson in 2018. This is the slide he presented to the public on who would pay for the park. #a2council
And if Mlive is going to finally ask some questions of Library Green, instead of just credulously reprinting the things they're making up to preserve their parking lot, I have some other suggestions.
Like why they quietly booted Alan Haber off their board of directors around 2023ish. #a2council
Like why they quietly booted Alan Haber off their board of directors around 2023ish. #a2council
July 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
And if Mlive is going to finally ask some questions of Library Green, instead of just credulously reprinting the things they're making up to preserve their parking lot, I have some other suggestions.
Like why they quietly booted Alan Haber off their board of directors around 2023ish. #a2council
Like why they quietly booted Alan Haber off their board of directors around 2023ish. #a2council
Mary Hathaway, LGC’s then president, in October 2018: “Nobody will be forced to do anything.”
Tom Wieder, lawyer for Vote No on A and B, yesterday: Prop A “direct[ed]” the city to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to build a parking deck park.
#a2council
Tom Wieder, lawyer for Vote No on A and B, yesterday: Prop A “direct[ed]” the city to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to build a parking deck park.
#a2council
July 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Mary Hathaway, LGC’s then president, in October 2018: “Nobody will be forced to do anything.”
Tom Wieder, lawyer for Vote No on A and B, yesterday: Prop A “direct[ed]” the city to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to build a parking deck park.
#a2council
Tom Wieder, lawyer for Vote No on A and B, yesterday: Prop A “direct[ed]” the city to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to build a parking deck park.
#a2council
A few takeaways here, 1 of them being: Library Green never cared that much about the park project, so much so that they drafted language they thought to be broad enough to permit AADL to take over the site.
They are basically indifferent on what goes there, provided it isn’t housing. #a2council
They are basically indifferent on what goes there, provided it isn’t housing. #a2council
July 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A few takeaways here, 1 of them being: Library Green never cared that much about the park project, so much so that they drafted language they thought to be broad enough to permit AADL to take over the site.
They are basically indifferent on what goes there, provided it isn’t housing. #a2council
They are basically indifferent on what goes there, provided it isn’t housing. #a2council
Library Green recently published a "chronology" of its engagement with the city that *completely omits* 2019 through 2023. Remember that Will Hathaway, who is still on their board, promised voters a completed urban plaza on the Library Lot by 2024. Some omissions are also admissions. #a2council
July 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Library Green recently published a "chronology" of its engagement with the city that *completely omits* 2019 through 2023. Remember that Will Hathaway, who is still on their board, promised voters a completed urban plaza on the Library Lot by 2024. Some omissions are also admissions. #a2council
Library Green paid a large sum of money to send a notice to the entire city that its popular, multi-term mayor has “always” opposed their organization’s only project, and directly quote him torching that project for specific and sensible sounding reasons. #a2council
July 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Library Green paid a large sum of money to send a notice to the entire city that its popular, multi-term mayor has “always” opposed their organization’s only project, and directly quote him torching that project for specific and sensible sounding reasons. #a2council
Library Green supporters attacking A/B as lacking in “guarantees” is an awkward pivot for a group of ppl defending a project that has no $ and no plan, and who support an org whose former pres used to get high on camera during the official mtgs that #a2council set up to plan said project.
July 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Library Green supporters attacking A/B as lacking in “guarantees” is an awkward pivot for a group of ppl defending a project that has no $ and no plan, and who support an org whose former pres used to get high on camera during the official mtgs that #a2council set up to plan said project.
Noting the near perfect fit between Joe Burrow’s explanation for not buying a Batmobile and the #a2council Anti Caucus’s explanation for not funding Library Green’s parking structure park.
July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Noting the near perfect fit between Joe Burrow’s explanation for not buying a Batmobile and the #a2council Anti Caucus’s explanation for not funding Library Green’s parking structure park.
Hop in the Wayback Machine to see the other partnerships that Library Green claimed to have, before it became politically expedient to claim that they had no partners and therefore couldn't raise money. Bank of Ann Arbor and Zingermans! Three charitable foundations! Wow!
#a2council
#a2council
July 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hop in the Wayback Machine to see the other partnerships that Library Green claimed to have, before it became politically expedient to claim that they had no partners and therefore couldn't raise money. Bank of Ann Arbor and Zingermans! Three charitable foundations! Wow!
#a2council
#a2council
Click on this link to see what's happening today at the Center of the City!
Today: It's people parking cars.
Tomorrow: People parking cars.
Next week: Still cars.
Next month: You won't believe this, still cars.
#a2council
Today: It's people parking cars.
Tomorrow: People parking cars.
Next week: Still cars.
Next month: You won't believe this, still cars.
#a2council
July 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Click on this link to see what's happening today at the Center of the City!
Today: It's people parking cars.
Tomorrow: People parking cars.
Next week: Still cars.
Next month: You won't believe this, still cars.
#a2council
Today: It's people parking cars.
Tomorrow: People parking cars.
Next week: Still cars.
Next month: You won't believe this, still cars.
#a2council
The fact that the city wouldn't sign Library Green's MOU has not stopped the group from promoting itself on its website as a city "partner" on the project.
Back to the lab to cook up another excuse to explain their abject failure to raise the money! #a2council
Back to the lab to cook up another excuse to explain their abject failure to raise the money! #a2council
July 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The fact that the city wouldn't sign Library Green's MOU has not stopped the group from promoting itself on its website as a city "partner" on the project.
Back to the lab to cook up another excuse to explain their abject failure to raise the money! #a2council
Back to the lab to cook up another excuse to explain their abject failure to raise the money! #a2council
Why didn't this friendly majority plow more $ into the project? Fmr CM Nelson defends her caucus's inaction by saying that "public funding was moot," which makes zero sense, and also that they had "bigger concerns" at that time--even though, see above, that's not true.
July 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Why didn't this friendly majority plow more $ into the project? Fmr CM Nelson defends her caucus's inaction by saying that "public funding was moot," which makes zero sense, and also that they had "bigger concerns" at that time--even though, see above, that's not true.
This "we couldn't raise $ because the city wouldn't sign our MOU" argument is sad, blame-shifting nonsense from Library Green.
But even taken at face value: they weren't exactly cooking from 2018-20, when they had a friendly majority on #a2council passing resolutions like this:
But even taken at face value: they weren't exactly cooking from 2018-20, when they had a friendly majority on #a2council passing resolutions like this:
July 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This "we couldn't raise $ because the city wouldn't sign our MOU" argument is sad, blame-shifting nonsense from Library Green.
But even taken at face value: they weren't exactly cooking from 2018-20, when they had a friendly majority on #a2council passing resolutions like this:
But even taken at face value: they weren't exactly cooking from 2018-20, when they had a friendly majority on #a2council passing resolutions like this:
Library Green: Prop A and B contain “no guarantees,” whereas we guarantee you this: if A and B fail, we will continue to not raise money, not spend the little money that we do accidentally raise, and not take any meaningful steps to build a park.
#a2council
#a2council
June 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Library Green: Prop A and B contain “no guarantees,” whereas we guarantee you this: if A and B fail, we will continue to not raise money, not spend the little money that we do accidentally raise, and not take any meaningful steps to build a park.
#a2council
#a2council
Library Green, 2018: We must take this valuable parcel off the market so we can use it as a space for unshaded, poorly attended events.
Library Green, 2025: This parcel is too valuable, as evidenced by the sale price of the transaction we scuttled, to give away for $1.
#a2council
Library Green, 2025: This parcel is too valuable, as evidenced by the sale price of the transaction we scuttled, to give away for $1.
#a2council
June 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Library Green, 2018: We must take this valuable parcel off the market so we can use it as a space for unshaded, poorly attended events.
Library Green, 2025: This parcel is too valuable, as evidenced by the sale price of the transaction we scuttled, to give away for $1.
#a2council
Library Green, 2025: This parcel is too valuable, as evidenced by the sale price of the transaction we scuttled, to give away for $1.
#a2council
Library Green, supporting an unfunded, unplanned park project: "It is unfair to require that a downtown park and civic center should begin with funding before the location is designated or the design process begun."
Library Green, opposing a new downtown library: WHERE ARE THE PLANS?!
#a2council
Library Green, opposing a new downtown library: WHERE ARE THE PLANS?!
#a2council
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Library Green, supporting an unfunded, unplanned park project: "It is unfair to require that a downtown park and civic center should begin with funding before the location is designated or the design process begun."
Library Green, opposing a new downtown library: WHERE ARE THE PLANS?!
#a2council
Library Green, opposing a new downtown library: WHERE ARE THE PLANS?!
#a2council
I suspect that the answer is: The city doesn’t partner with unserious organizations to construct unfunded parks projects that the parks department doesn’t want and cant support.
The city administrator’s memo flagged the funding issue back in January.
The city administrator’s memo flagged the funding issue back in January.
June 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I suspect that the answer is: The city doesn’t partner with unserious organizations to construct unfunded parks projects that the parks department doesn’t want and cant support.
The city administrator’s memo flagged the funding issue back in January.
The city administrator’s memo flagged the funding issue back in January.